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Gasoline - Diesel Prices
(photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Oil Creeps Above $72 After Big Fall on Weak Demand
ABC News
The Associated Press | By ALEX KENNEDY Associated Press Writer | SINGAPORE September 1, 2010 (AP) | Workers stand on a new well Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, being erected in the Persian Gulf desert oil... Workers stand on a new well Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, being erected in the Persian Gulf desert oil fie...
A North Korean soldier takes memorial pictures of his fellow soldiers at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, north of Seoul, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009.
(photo: AP / Yonhap, Choi Jae-koo)
North Korea says it had joined Twitter, YouTube
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | North Korea appears to have ramped up its propaganda war against South Korea and the US by turning to Twitter and YouTube - websites that most citizens of the reclusive communist country are banned from viewing. | The North's government-run Uriminzokkiri website posted...
Over 70 Countries Converge to Craft a Truly Global Congress
Insurance Newsnet
| ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - The Medical Tourism Association announced today that over seventy countries have confirmed participation in the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Los Angeles...
AP Interview: UN says BlackBerry should share data
The Miami Herald
| LONDON -- BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. technology chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored. | ...
UN says BlackBerry should share data
The Himalayan
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AP Interview: UN says BlackBerry should share data
The State
| LONDON - BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. technology chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored. | H...
Oil - Petroleum - Price
WN / Sweet Radoc
Oil prices hover below $81
Irish Times
| Oil prices hovered just below $81 a barrel today, as a weaker dollar supported prices that had fallen for three straight days last week, in part on poor US economic data. | Analy...
This video frame grab taken from Iranian state broadcasters Al-Alam purports to show an Iranian Sajjil-2 surface-to-surface missile launching from a site in Semnan, 125 miles east of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday May 20, 2009.
AP / al-Alam via APTN
Iran Claims to Have S-300 Surface-To-Air Missiles
The New York Times
| Filed at 4:05 a.m. ET | TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has obtained four S-300 surface-to-air missiles despite Russia's refusal to deliver them to Tehran under a valid contract, a sem...
A section of Tehran's oil refinery is seen, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007. Iran's president said Saturday that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is "under heavy economic and political pressures" and that the oil prices are below its real value, state-run-news agency reported. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his remarks prior to his trip to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia where he is due to attend the OPEC summ
AP / Vahid Salemi
Iran sanctions open door wider for China
Asia Times
|      Aug 3, 2010 Iran sanctions open door wider for China | By Antoaneta Becker | LONDON - The European Union's new sanctions against Iran over the Middl...
Iran: Stock exchange hits record high
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | The Tehran Stock Exchange hit a record high yesterday, after shooting up nearly 4 percent in two days. | The exchange's total value now exceeds $80 billion (R585bn), up from $70bn in mid-July. | The rise is being driven...
A look at economic developments around the globe
Breitbart
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: | ___ | TOKYO—Japan's government and the central bank threw the economy a double lifeline, seeking to contain a strong yen and revive a faltering recove...
A Look at Economic Developments Around the Globe
The New York Times
| Filed at 1:47 p.m. ET | A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: | ------ | TOKYO -- Japan's government and the central bank threw the economy a double lifeline, seeking to contain a strong yen an...
Economy
Flags of Turkey, right, and the European Union are seen in front of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 file photo. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, in Brussels on Friday Dec. 8, 2006 defended Turkey's offer to gradually open up to trade with Cyprus in a bid to keep EU membership talks going, saying it signaled Ankara's "goodwill" to resolve the stalemate.
(photo: AP / Osman Orsal, File)
Time for the EU to end hypocrisy
Gulf News
| You can gauge the importance of Turkey to the western world by the fact that both Barack Obama and David Cameron gave speeches to the Turkish parliament in Ankara within months of taking office. | The West cares about Turkey because it is a hinge state between East and West and a rare example of a majority Muslim state that is also a secular demo...
Business
Iranians chant and hold posters aloft as they demonstrate outside the United Nations headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, June 15, 2009. The demonstrators were protesting against the election results from Iran.
(photo: AP / Mark Baker)
Take Iranian opposition to the streets
The Australian
| MINDFUL of the danger of Iran's regime acquiring nuclear weapons, the international community has passed a new round of sanctions. | They aim to persuade Tehran that a negotiated deal is in its best interests. After the UN approved Resolution 1929 in June, Western nations - including the US, the European Union and Australia - enacted additio...



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